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UNITED STATES PATENT y OFFICE.

GEORG BEEGEN, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

MUG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 294,564, dated March 4,1884.

Application nied December 21, lesa. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that 1,' GEORG BEEGEN, of Detroit, in the county of Wayneyand State of Michigan, have inventeda vnew and useful Improvement inMugs, of which the following is a specification. Y

Figure 1 is a vertical central section, showing the operation of myinvention in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section von line m x,Fig. l; and Fig.v 3 is a detached view of the ends of the guide-rod,showing its fastenings.

My invention consists in a nlug having a hinged cover and a slidinghandle, so connected with the cover that the act of raising the mug bythe vhandle lifts the cover, and the weight of the handle closes thecover when the mug is set down.

A represents a mug of other suitable material.

B B represent vtwo ribs .made with or fastened on mug A in any suitablemanner.

H H represent clips at the upper and lower ends of ribs B, fastened bybending their ends I into the recesses C on ribs B.

G represents a guide-rod whose ends are fastened in clips H, runningvertically in the space between rilsB. A

D represents the handle "of the' mug, vthe vertical portion of vhich, E,is made to slide glass, stoneware, or

between the ribs B and has a perforation, F` Y therethrough, to guiderodG. l I

a b represent nuts by which guide-rod' G is fastened to clips H, and Jrepresents a short spring surrounding the uppervportion of said rod.

N represents a cover for the mug, carried on a hinge, K L M, fastened tothe upper clip, H, K being the arm attached lto the clip, L the pivot,and M the swinging arm which carries the cover.

P representsa connecting-rod, pivoted at O to the swinging arm of thehinge, and at Q to the handle D, passing through the arm or leaf K ofthe hinge, there being .a slot cut in lfit over and slideon `the Eig. 1.

l the swinging leaf Mto receive connecting-rod P when in the positionshown in dottedlines in Fig. l.

It is evident that the clips which carry the guide-rod G and hinge maybe secured in other ways than by ribs B to mug A'ffor instance, byhoops-and that by making the guide-rod G square or polygonal and makingthe perforation F to correspond therewith the ribs B may be dispensedwith without departing from the spirit of my invention.

The operation of my invention is as follows: When the mug is, as shownin full lines in Fig. 1, with the cover down, .the handle D will rest onthe lower clip, H. When the han` dle is grasped to raise the mug andlifted, it runs up on 'guiderod G until it strikes spring J and forcesup connecting-rod P, thereby lifting cover N, as shown in dotted linesin When the mug is placed on a table, handle D falls by its own weightand closes cover N. It will thus be seen that the cover N is alwaysclosed except when the mug is raised, as in the act of drinking.

What Iclaim as'my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, witha mug, of a hinged cover, and sliding handleattached to the hinge by a pivoted connecting-rod, substantially asshown and described. 2. The combination of the mug A, ribs B, clips H H,guide-rod G, handle D, having the perforation F in the part E thereof.cover N, hinge vK L M, and connecting-rod P, substantially as shown anddescribed.

3. The combination of the mug A, hinged cover N, handle D,.adapted toslide vertically4 on the gu`iderod G, and connecting-rod P, pivotedtothe handle and to the swinging leaf of the hinge, 'substantially asshown and described. Y

. GEORG BEEGEN. Witnesses:

GYEUsE, LoTHEoP, SUMNEE COLLINS.

